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  • adjective In the manner of a proclamation.

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Examples

  • "As you can see, Ladies and Gentlemen, " said Boots, -on her lovely throat she does not wear the light collar of inflexible steel, that beautiful circlet proclamatory of absolute bondage.

    Cinnamon Roll 2010

  • The question is how we can keep crashing about, proclamatory and crass, once we know that so much of the world grows silent in the face of our loutishness?

    Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination by Barbara Hurd ricklibrarian 2007

  • The question is how we can keep crashing about, proclamatory and crass, once we know that so much of the world grows silent in the face of our loutishness?

    Archive 2007-02-01 ricklibrarian 2007

  • Ignoring it seems kind of rude, but mentioning it seems unnecessarily self-proclamatory.

    How To Lose An Argument On The Internet, Part I theferrett 2004

  • But his thoughts are interrupted by another loud proclamatory voice.

    Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004

  • But his thoughts are interrupted by another loud proclamatory voice.

    Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004

  • But his thoughts are interrupted by another loud proclamatory voice.

    Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004

  • As I walked to and from Chick-fil-A today I came up with a way to explain it to people but I still don't quite feel like putting my feelings about it in here, because it feels too proclamatory.

    anne-jumps Diary Entry anne-jumps 2002

  • On the other hand, doubtless she was destined to soon receive those lovely adornments proclamatory of the uncompromising condition of Gorean bondage, those adornments which so enhance the beauty of a woman, those adornments significatory that all institutional niceties pertinent to her bondage have been properly and legally completed.

    Mercenaries Of Gor Norman, John 1985

  • He raves, is suspicious, is at war with all things and all men; rails at the social system, not from any broad sympathy with better things, but from a strident selfishness, rasping and self-proclamatory, lacking elevation, save as his love puts wings beneath him for a moment and lifts him, as eagles billow up their young; is weak, and tries to cover weakness up by ranting.

    A Hero and Some Other Folks 1892

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